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Strong's H7339 רְחֹב (rechob)

Rechob means “width” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Strong's Number H7339
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 41
Books 20

Strong's H7339 Quick Answer

Strong's H7339 רְחוֹב רְחוֹב (rchob) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. rchob (rekh-obe') (or rchowb {rekh-obe'}) n-f. 1. a width 2. (concretely) avenue or area It has 41 linked Bible usages across 20 books. Visible English usage signals include street, streets, broad, place, and way. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
rchob (rekh-obe') (or rchowb {rekh-obe'}) n-f. 1. a width 2. (concretely) avenue or area
Usage
41 linked usages
Books
20 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
street, streets, broad, place, and way

Meaning and Definition

rchob (rekh-obe') (or rchowb {rekh-obe'}) n-f. 1. a width 2. (concretely) avenue or area [from H7337] KJV: broad place (way), street. See also H1050. Root(s): H7337 See also: H1050

Original Word
רְחוֹב רְחוֹב
Transliteration
rchob
Derivation
Root: רחב First root strongs: 7337
Morphology
noun fem

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H7339. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

How Strong's H7339 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render rchob, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

street Deuteronomy 13:16 17× streets Psalms 55:11 17× broad Song of Solomon 3:2 place Ezekiel 16:24 way Proverbs 26:13

How Strong's H7339 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 41 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H7339 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H7339 in the Old Testament

41 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 19:2 KJV

And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.

Deuteronomy 13:16 KJV

And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, for the LORD thy God: and it shall be an heap for ever; it shall not be built again.

Judges 19:15 KJV

And they turned aside thither, to go in and to lodge in Gibeah: and when he went in, he sat him down in a street of the city: for there was no man that took them into his house to lodging.

Usage Excerpts

First 41 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H7339.

Genesis 19:2 Old Testament, KJV
And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.
Deuteronomy 13:16 Old Testament, KJV
And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, for the LORD thy God: and it shall be an heap for ever; it shall not be built again.
Judges 19:15 Old Testament, KJV
And they turned aside thither, to go in and to lodge in Gibeah: and when he went in, he sat him down in a street of the city: for there was no man that took them into his house to lodging.
Judges 19:17 Old Testament, KJV
And when he had lifted up his eyes, he saw a wayfaring man in the street of the city: and the old man said, Whither goest thou? and whence comest thou?
Judges 19:20 Old Testament, KJV
And the old man said, Peace be with thee; howsoever let all thy wants lie upon me; only lodge not in the street.
2 Samuel 21:12 Old Testament, KJV
And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabeshgilead, which had stolen them from the street of Bethshan, where the Philistines had hanged them, when the Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa:
2 Chronicles 29:4 Old Testament, KJV
And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the east street,
2 Chronicles 32:6 Old Testament, KJV
And he set captains of war over the people, and gathered them together to him in the street of the gate of the city, and spake comfortably to them, saying,
Ezra 10:9 Old Testament, KJV
Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the street of the house of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain.
Nehemiah 8:1 Old Testament, KJV
And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before the water gate; and they spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded to Israel.
Nehemiah 8:3 Old Testament, KJV
And he read therein before the street that was before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law.
Nehemiah 8:16 Old Testament, KJV
So the people went forth, and brought them, and made themselves booths, every one upon the roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the street of the water gate, and in the street of the gate of Ephraim.
Esther 4:6 Old Testament, KJV
So Hatach went forth to Mordecai unto the street of the city, which was before the king's gate.
Esther 6:9 Old Testament, KJV
And let this apparel and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble princes, that they may array the man withal whom the king delighteth to honour, and bring him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaim before him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delighteth to honour.
Esther 6:11 Old Testament, KJV
Then took Haman the apparel and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and brought him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaimed before him, Thus shall it be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour.
Job 29:7 Old Testament, KJV
When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!
Psalms 55:11 Old Testament, KJV
Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.
Psalms 144:14 Old Testament, KJV
That our oxen may be strong to labour; that there be no breaking in, nor going out; that there be no complaining in our streets.
Proverbs 1:20 Old Testament, KJV
Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
Proverbs 5:16 Old Testament, KJV
Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
Proverbs 7:12 Old Testament, KJV
Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
Proverbs 22:13 Old Testament, KJV
The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.
Proverbs 26:13 Old Testament, KJV
The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.
Song of Solomon 3:2 Old Testament, KJV
I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
Isaiah 15:3 Old Testament, KJV
In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly.
Isaiah 59:14 Old Testament, KJV
And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
Jeremiah 5:1 Old Testament, KJV
Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it.
Jeremiah 9:21 Old Testament, KJV
For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.
Jeremiah 48:38 Old Testament, KJV
There shall be lamentation generally upon all the housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof: for I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein is no pleasure, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 49:26 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
Jeremiah 50:30 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD.
Lamentations 2:11 Old Testament, KJV
Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
Lamentations 2:12 Old Testament, KJV
They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom.
Lamentations 4:18 Old Testament, KJV
They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
Ezekiel 16:24 Old Testament, KJV
That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street.
Ezekiel 16:31 Old Testament, KJV
In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as an harlot, in that thou scornest hire;
Daniel 9:25 Old Testament, KJV
Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
Amos 5:16 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the LORD, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.
Nahum 2:4 Old Testament, KJV
The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings.
Zechariah 8:4 Old Testament, KJV
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man with his staff in his hand for very age.
Zechariah 8:5 Old Testament, KJV
And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H7339, grouped by book.

Genesis 1 usage, Old Testament
Deuteronomy 1 usage, Old Testament
Judges 3 usages, Old Testament
2 Samuel 1 usage, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 2 usages, Old Testament
Ezra 1 usage, Old Testament
Nehemiah 3 usages, Old Testament
Esther 3 usages, Old Testament
Job 1 usage, Old Testament
Psalms 2 usages, Old Testament
Proverbs 5 usages, Old Testament
Song of Solomon 1 usage, Old Testament
Isaiah 2 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 5 usages, Old Testament
Lamentations 3 usages, Old Testament
Ezekiel 2 usages, Old Testament
Daniel 1 usage, Old Testament
Amos 1 usage, Old Testament
Nahum 1 usage, Old Testament
Zechariah 2 usages, Old Testament

Strong's H7339 FAQ

What does rechob (רְחֹב) mean?

Rechob (Strong's H7339) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "width". rchob (rekh-obe') (or rchowb {rekh-obe'}) n-f. 1. a width 2. (concretely) avenue or area

How many times is rechob (רְחֹב) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 41 linked usages for Strong's H7339 across 20 books.

Where can I study rechob (רְחֹב) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H7339 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate rechob (רְחֹב)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as street, streets, broad, place, and way. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.